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EDRi is the biggest European network defending rights and freedoms online. We work to to challenge private and state actors who abuse their power to control or manipulate the public. We do so by advocating for robust and enforced laws, informing and mobilising people, promoting a healthy and accountable technology market, and building a movement of organisations and individuals committed to digital rights and freedoms in a connected world.
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Key privacy concerns in Netherlands 2007
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The nominees and winners of the Dutch Big Brother Awards 2007 showed it clearly: a proper level of data protection in The Netherlands cannot be taken for granted. A number of big projects and ongoing legislative efforts threaten the state of data protection in the Netherlands. The […]
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Main data protection concerns with the EU policy developments in 2007
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Lisbon Treaty was signed in December 2007. Notwithstanding the many critics raised by this Treaty, the text, when ratified by all member States, will bring two major improvements to the EU and its citizens. First, the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union will become […]
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EDRI-gram – Number 6.1, 16 January 2008
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German data retention act challenged
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Just five days after the German President Horst Köhler approved the German data retention law that entered into force on 1 January 2008, the German Working group on data retention (Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung) challenged the law in the Federal German Constitutional Court. The complaint was filed with the […]
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EC public consultation of Creative Content Online
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 3 January 2008, the European Commission (EC) launched a public consultation for the preparation of a recommendation on Creative Content Online to be adopted by the European Parliament and Council that calls for a common legal environment for online content, proposing multi-territory licences. In the opinion […]
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European Data Protection Supervisor's opinion on RFID
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) In the context of increasing debates in the European Union over the RFID policy, Peter Hustinx, the European Data Protection Supevisor (EDPS), published on 20 December 2007 his opinion on the growing use of RFID chips in consumer products and other new applications affecting individuals. EDPS published […]
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New data protection rules asked by UK MPs
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Justice Committee of the UK House of Commons issued on 3 January 2008 a report on public data protection summarising the status and development of the topic, especially since the November 2007 Chancellor’s announcement to the Parliament related to the loss of confidential data records of […]
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PI: Leading surveillance societies in the EU and the World 2007
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) UK-based human rights group Privacy International (PI) published at the end of last year the 2007 ranking assessment of the state of privacy in 47 countries, including all European Union member states. The raking is based on the Privacy & Human Rights reports produced since 1997 by […]
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Inclusive E-government in Western Balkans
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Most of the participants in the workshops on inclusive e-government that took place in the capitals of six Western Balkan countries, considered that their countries have established very few mechanisms for e-inclusion and interoperability, even though the interest in e-Government development is high. The workshops took place […]
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UK Government continues to pressure ISPs for Internet filtering
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 8 January 2008, at the launching of the government consultation on new copyright exceptions, Lord Triesman, the UK minister for intellectual property, threatened the ISPs with the introduction of new legislation to force them to block illegal filesharing in case they cannot find a voluntary agreement […]
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ELOI – a French database to manage the expulsion of illegal migrants
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 26 December 2007, the French government published a decree creating the ELOI file, a database aimed at facilitating the expulsion of illegal migrants. In March 2007, the French highest administrative court cancelled a first attempt by the government to create this file, after 4 French NGOs, […]
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European Commission closes enquiry on Apple
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The European Commission (EC) has closed the enquiry against Apple for charging more UK users than other EU users for downloads of its iTunes music, following the company announcement on 9 January 2008 that it will reduce download prices for UK within 6 months to align them […]
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